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Giant Tulip #2: Regional Clues
One block from an Etsy shopMany of the giant tulip quilts in my picture files have nohistory with them but we can guess they might be Southern.Even when they are found in Maine, as was this one from...
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Giant Tulip Quilts #3: How Early?
The Charleston Museum owns this red and green tulip quilt dated 1861.Could it be that old? No reason to doubt it. The Turkey red (deteriorating in the way Turkey red will) and the yellow-green...
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Giant Tulip Quilts #4: Commercial Patterns
In the late 1880s one could search Scammell's Universal Treasure House of Useful Knowledge and find patchwork designs in the T's for Textile Decoration. "The tulip block is to be pieced out of three...
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Giant Tulips #5: Carolina Tulip Pattern
How the tulip pattern was handed around in the last half of the 19th century remains a mystery. The color scheme and its bloom of diamond shapes is a characteristic. North Carolina Museum of Historyby...
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EBay Find
One woman's trash, another woman's treasure.I bought these blocks on eBay for way cheap. About $1.30 each. You probably had no urge to bid against me. They are a treasure to me because those little...
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Cut Out Corners
The New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts recently showed Bed-Post Corners: ​Quilts Made for Four-Poster Beds from the Permanent Collectionhttps://www.nequiltmuseum.org/index.htmlThe show...
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Between the Layers: Art and Story in Tennessee Quilts
The state of Tennessee has a fabulous new museum building in Nashville. Their first temporary exhibit is a quilt show up until July 7th. I snapped some pictures when I visited last month...Frances Mary...
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Quilts in the Movies
I just watched The Miracle Worker, an amazing movie from 1962.In her bedroom Annie Sullivan (played by Anne Bancroft) has a logcabin quilt on the bed---it seems to have a cretonne flounce. I always cry...
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Virtual Booth-Spring Market 2019
I'm going for minimalism in my virtual booth for Quilt Market in Kansas City this week. Since money is no object I thought I'd commission artist Yayoi Kusama to do one of her dot/mirror infinity...
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Quilt Market in Kansas City
I got to go to Quilt Market yesterdayI had a half hour gig in the C&T booth autographingThe Kansas City Star Quilts Sampler bookwe did.Roseanne, Karla and I then moseyed around all day.I was on the...
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Thinking Vertically
If no caption---from online auctionsLucinda McLin Carson or Sophia C McLin, Washington County TennesseePat L Nickols CollectionMingei MuseumCathy Trumble set some old wedding ring arcstogether in...
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Atlanta History Center 1: Tree of Life Chintz
Last month Merikay Waldvogel and I took a tour of the Southlooking at quilts in museums.We stopped in Atlanta and spent a day at the Atlanta History Center,which has several hundred quilts in their...
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Atlanta History Museum 2: Fruit Basket Chintz Quilts
Merikay and I are interested in quilts featuringprinted furniture panels, so we asked to see severalin the Atlanta History Museum.This one is well worn but it gave us much to talk about.The unknown...
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Atlanta History Center 3: Two More Chintz Quilts
Chintz applique quilt with 49 floral blocks attributed to the JonesFamily of Liberty County, Georgia.Collection of the Atlanta History Center.There are no names on these blocks.It may all be the work...
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Atlanta History Center 4: Jane Allen Nesbitt's 1828 Chintz Quilt
Quilt dated 1828 and signed on the reverseJane Allen NesbittAtlanta History CenterThis is the earliest panel quilt in our files with a dateactually inscribed on it. The date surprised us at first. When...
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Family in the Dry Goods Business: Jemima Prentice
Silk Strip Quilt dated 1835 by Jemima Parmalee Prentice (1773-1865), New York. Collection of Colonial Williamsburg, Gift of Graham and Sally N. Lusk in memory of Eloise Prentice LuskThis lovely silk...
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Past Perfect: Gwen Marston
Gwen Marston died this spring. Portrait by Kathy at Quilted Under the Influencehttp://quiltedundertheinfluence.blogspot.com/2011/10/small-studies-with-gwen-marston.htmlShe was quite influential in...
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String Quilts #1: Memories
A string quilt pieced of odd shaped strips of fabric,about 1910String star about 1900Six-Point String Quilt, Kansas City Star, 1940String quilts aren't often found in the quilt pattern literature,...
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String Quilts #2---Dated Examples
String star pieced over a newspaper dated 1899String quilts aren't often dated or signed. I've got a small file of dated examples that can help pinpoint when the style began and how it evolved.Silk...
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Cooper Union Sanitary Commission Quilt #1: Style
Not the most elegant quilt in the world.But it jumped out at me when I was scrolling throughStella Rubin's online shop, looking for something else.Pieced sampler of mid-19th-century cottons with narrow...
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